Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-14
W0MAN's WORLD.
HOW TO CONTINUE YOUTHFUL IN
APPEARANCE.
sults-Hints Upon Spring Styles
and Economies

Whatever your age rs. madam, you
don't look it, is the often quoted bon-mot
Of clever Frenchman. How not q to look
it has caused many aH anxious moment
to many women and net few men. DIR.
BENJAMIN Ward Richardson gives the fol-
lowing good advice On this subject:
Grief anticipates dge. Dwelling OF the
inevitable past, forming vain hypothesis as
to what might have been if this or that had
or had not been, acquiring a craze for re-
counting what has occurred-these scts do
more harm to future health and effort
than many things connected with real ca
lamity. Occupations and new pursuits are
the best preventives for mental shock and
bereavement.
Hate anticipates age. Hate keeps the
heart always at full tension. 1t gives rise
to oppression of the brain and senses. 1t
confuses the whole man. 1t robs the
stomach of nervous power, and, digestion
being impaired, the failure of life begins at
once. Those, therefore, who are born with
this passion-and good many, fear, are
should give it up.
Jealousy anticipates age. The facial ex-
preston of jealousy is old age, in however
youngI a face it may be cast Jealousy
preYs upon and kills the heart. So, jealous
lllGH are jlOt OHlg unhappy, DuI DTOkGn-
hearted, and live short lives. | have never
known man of jealous nature live any
thing like long or useful life. The pre-
yention OF jealousy is diversion of mind
toward useful and unselish work. In
chastity anticipates age.
Intemperances anticipates age. The
more social causes of mental and physical
organic diseases are investigated, the more
closely the origin of degenerative organic
changes leading to premature deterioration
and decay are questioned, the more closely
does it come out that intemperance often
not suspected by the person himself who
is implicated in it, SO subtle is its influence,
is at the root of the evil.
When old age has really commenced, its
march toward final decay is best delayed
by attention TO those rules of conservation
by which life is sustained with the least
friction and the least waste.
The prime rules for this purpose are
To subsist on light but nutritious diet,
with milk as the standard food, but varied
according 10 season.
To take food in moderate quantity four
times in the day. including a light meal
before going to bed.
To clothe warmly, but lightly, so that the
body may in all seasons maintain an equal
temperature.
To keep the body in fair exercise and the
mind active and cheerful
To maintain an interest in what is going
on in the world, and to take part in reason
able labors and pleasures, as though old
age were not present.
To take plenty of sleep during sleeping
hours, to spend nine hours in bed at the
least, and to take care during cold weather
that the temperature of the bed room is
maintained at sixty degrees Fahrenheit
To avoid passion. excitement Injury
FATAL SOCIAL FAILING.
Young wives and husbands cannot be too
strongly reminded of the probable ship
wreck they will make of their happiness
if they yield to that ill-temper which ex-
presses itself in discourtesy, want of COM
pliance, unnecessary opposition, and above
all that most disastrous amusement of
"nagging" and creating row. Hundreds
of households have gone wrong for the
mere want of checking in time the habit of
annoying as relief to the momentary
feeling of irritation or discomfort The
wife who gets into the habit of contradict
ing, of checking her husband, of oppos-
ing him in small things and standing out
in large ones-the husband who is sneer-
ing, contemptuous, tyrannical, fault-find-
ing-perhaps neither side knowing the
whole extent of its folly, but Just giving
way to it as more easy than to fight and
conquer it-these young people are doing
their best to dig the grave of their married
peace; and some day poor, pale, iainting
little love will fail into it, stark and plume
less, and will never rise to life again.
In the beginning these little tiffs and dis
comforts are made up with a kiss from
him and few tears from her to add cement
10 the reconciliation. By time the tiffs are
more acrid and the reconciliation is less
warm. By still further time this never
comes at ALL and things get into that
chronic state when there is never an open
breach and never formal healing, but an
overwhelming drift and neyer-ending
GOODNESS. Then the two lives Jar and grind
like rusty hinges-loclls which misfit the
slots wheels where the axle is stiff-or
anything else which should work together
in harmony and smoothness, but which
for want of care to keep the adjustment
exact (perhaps for want of oil to the ioints)
creak and chafe and hang and do not fit,
to the annoyance and more of all the by-
ISLANDERS.
ECONOMICS IN FASHIONS.
In buying the spring costumes it is most
economical to purchase goods in fashion.
though not in the most startling STYLE.
Some fashions go through two years wear
and VIII not look out OF place, while others,
ike the red-coat fashion the sack trimming
from shoulder to shoulder and the embroi-
dered yoke, die during the first season. A
fashion note dated three years ago saws that
brocades and embroidered robes are the
prevailing style; this year stripes and
plaids I'LL the shop windows and embroi-
der1es are displayed only in few goods,
and their limitations in the gaily-flowered
sateens, which suggest garden parties and
other eut-of-d0or festivities. Since combi-
nations will be much used, made-oysr
dresses Will be in full favor this season. If
the material is plain, buy striped goods to
correspond 1t will be best to have made
over gown cut at home, since at this sea-
son thedresSmakers in shops are too busy
to take orders of the sort, and thought and
study Of individual needs will be necessary.
One pretty way of combining would be
to have striped basque with plain,vest,
long striped drapery over plain skirt with
a plain box-plaited panel upon one side.
Ii the draperyi is plain it would be best TO
nave pam basque. In combining, the
effort should be directed to preserving
simplicity, and preventing the cut-up effect
which Is often noticed in dress COMPOSED
oftwo materials. BaSques, as well Jackets
now have trimming on the back as well as
upon the front. The panel effect is not
LOST, though instead OF the straight panel
once in fashion box plaits at the side or
work paSSementaries are used. Tfassl
braid is favorite ornament for wong.
ladies. A walking costume has a short
round basque 'with frontand cuffs trimm ed
with narrow, round braid. A short, rousd
overskirt is lsoped over skirt composed
of wide box pEats alternating with mar
row box plaits The back drapery falls
Fat in full plaits.
The early s9afiag costumes which have
appeared in Boston are composed mostly Of
dress and sacque,et two different materials
and colors. Black -sacques have a revival
this season. They ore made USUALLY double
breasted. and are adorned with single red
rosebud placed through buston- hole of
the eacque.
Fashion tends moreand more to special-
ties, and the toilet for the draxing room
does not in any way resemble the toilet
costume, and the gomsn who o.onfounds
the one with the other fnds herself on all
occasions at variance with the refined taste
and quiet elegance which prevail at pres
ent The French caprice, originality and
righteousness OF the evening toilet az pears
IN marked contrast to tise exceptions. SIM
pfclty and quaintness Of the tailor-rade
street gown. which is as extreme from the
evening dress in its sober effect as the gay
toDoSgan sGit and nuns robe.